Kidnapped Cousins

The bound cousins groaned and moaned in their gags as they watched one of their kidnappers
securely nail the door in place.

Our arms were lashed together behind our backs, at our shoulder above the bicep, above our elbows and
at our wrists with ropes.

Our chests and guts were circled with rope.

Our thighs, knees and ankles were tied.

Rags were shoved into our mouths and gagged us by ropes between our teeth and around our heads.

We sat against the wall.

A long rope tethered our necks and our legs together.

Another circled each of our bellies.

Our arms were numb.

Sweat burned our eyes and dripped off our chins.

We were sore from the beatings we got when the
jumped us.

We worked our arms but could not move them an inch, so tight were we tied.

The gag was deep down our throats and it felt like we were choking, our gagged coughs filled the room.

There was no chance that we could get free.

We just had to sit and wait.

Nigh came.  The temperature dropped to near freezing.  Soaked with cold sweat we began to shiver.

We panicked!  We were squirming insanely only tightening the ropes around our necks.

Finally we stopped.  We looked at each other's misery and wondered if we were going to die here.